CBS cans 20 projects — writers’ strike
p2pnet news | TV:- Terrible news for couch potatoes.
Striking Hollywood writers have dealt a "serious blow" to the traditional TV development season.
"When the strike began November 5, less than a quarter of the scripts commissioned by the networks had been delivered," say Hollywood Reporter/Reuters.
Now the 11-week-old walkout, "has put the pilot season in limbo, forcing the networks to mull shortening, postponing or even scrapping it," it says.
CBS has dropped about 20 projects, mostly dramas, and, "Other networks also might truncate their 2008-09 development slates because of the strike."
Fox and NBC declined comment, while ABC couldn’t be reached, says the story, adding:
"The script purge by CBS is the latest cost-cutting measure implemented by the TV networks and studios since the beginning of the writers strike.
"It comes on the heels of the termination of about 70 overall deals by the five major TV studios under the pacts’ force majeure – or ‘act of god’ – provisions."
The 12,000 Writers’ Guild of America (WGA) members want an increase in their fees when their work shows up on on DVDs, online, mobile phones and other “electronic devices”.
The producers say the demands are impossible to meet.
Not only but also, the "Holy of Holies, the Oscars, is being threatened, p2pnet posted recently.
Also See:-
Hollywood Reporter/Reuters – CBS pulls plug on 20 projects, January 21, 2008
Holy of Holies – Writers’ strike threatens the Oscars, January 15, 2008
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January 21st, 2008 at 12:44 pm
I think it is a good time to ditch Comcast.
January 21st, 2008 at 4:36 pm
To hell with Oscars!!!